[填空题]Where did the Olympic competitions start

[填空题]Where did the Olympic competitions start

[填空题]How did the Olympic Games start In ancient Greece, athletic festivals were very important and have strong (1) . Originally, the festival was held in honor of Zeus, the supreme God in Greek mythology. Eventually, the Olympian athletic festival had lost its (2) and became an international event. No one knows exactly (3) the Olympic Games go, but some scholars recorded date from 776 B.C.
According to some scholars, at first, the only Olympic event was (4) , called a stadium and that was the only event until 724 B.C. After that, other (5) were added and 16 years later in (6) , the pentathlon was added and wrestling became part of the Games. This pentathlon was a five-event match, which (7) running, wrestling, leaping, throwing the discus and hurling the javelin.
The Games were held (8) and after an uninterrupted history of 1,170 years, the Games were (9) in A.D. 394, the Christen